Visual-audio synesthesia

[Merlin]

Who'da thunk it?
Visual-audio synesthesia
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-sound-of-sight

[Simple Guy]

Hi Merlin,

It's new to many readers of that publication, but not to some of us who
have been "stalking the wild synesthesia"* for some time. :)

* A term coined by a tremendous Ericksonian and NLP trainer and
is a playoff of the title of the "Stalking The Wild Asparagus" book.
(The book has nothing at all to do with hypnosis/NLP, but is
a classic for foragers and others; it's on my shelf.)

[Poodle]

when science proves we NLPers are so very correct when it's been done successfully for 30 some years now. Even Mozart did it when he described his music....he could taste his music in his mind as well as using two other senses.

Thanks Merlin for letting us know science is catching up!

Pood (who has never tasted her music) ;)

[Merlin]

>Pood (who has never tasted her music)

Mine is an olfactory response.
My music stinks ;)

[Merlin]

and...
http://www.livescience.com/health/080818-seeing-sound.html

[Poodle]

I wonder when they write about the sides of the eyes where sight is the poorest if they have any idea what they have stumbled upon. Personally, I cannot tell any difference from straight on to peripheral :)

Pood ;)

[Merlin]

Personally, I cannot tell any difference from straight on to peripheral consciously http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c344/Myhrrhleine2/Eyes/Wink.gif

[The Length]

interesting.

heres the link to the bmc article:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/9/79

[Poodle]

Merlin because we know what peripheral does unconsciously. ;)

[Connie]

I had fun with synesthesia today. I had worked with a girl with several issues, including constant questioning self talk--our first session we'd done several adjustments to the submodalities of the voice, including visual elements such as a voice wearing a clown nose, and giving it a chipmunk cartoon voice, and turning it down, turning it down, turning it down. She reported that she was still being plagued by the self talk, so today I tried something different. We did a timeline reimprinting process, and healed everyone involved in a traumatic experience from her childhood, bringing in a number of positive resources. One of them she came up with was "hug." A hug feeling, of warmth and connection. I included the voice as another personage to be healed and suggested she give the voice a "hug." She did, and it really seemed to be transformative. :) I had never thought to have a client hug a voice before.

The timeline work looks to be very successful, and her whole demeanor and body language and voice tonality changed when she emerged. For the better!

Then, the next client today, I decided on more synesthesia. One metaphor--I talked about how the tree feels--great feelings by the way. Strength, and tenacity, and confidence, and free flowing naturalness. All things that he needed for his context.

Fun! I think I'll do more of it--this overlapping and mapping across sense systems.

[Poodle]

however, to those that love you 'tis pure ambrosia. :love:

Pood